I haven't bought new pants for years, why do I have to keep buying new PCs? [Mon Mar 8 2021]

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I haven't bought new pants for years, why do I have to keep buying new PCs?

Friends and family tech support meets steam-powered computing

 

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Hacked LinkedIn post puts further pressure on Salesforce over attitudes to race in the workplace

SaaS pusher says it has locked up social media account after 'unauthorised access'

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Wipro buys London-based banking and tech consultant Capco for US$1.45B

'Bold play by Wipro, but one not without risk' - analyst

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Soft-shell robot uses snailfish features to sail though Mariana Trench stress test

Deep sea submersible may help humans explore deepest oceans

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'Screen access technology has existed for decades': Visually impaired man sues Dell over 'inaccessible' website

Suit says he couldn't tell 'old' price from 'new', nor perceive pop-up window

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First Verizon, now T-Mobile: US carrier suggests folks use 2G to save battery

Why are cellular networks so worried about batt life during lockdown?

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The 40-Year-Old Version: ZX81's sleek plastic case shows no sign of middle-aged spread

'You'll be surprised at how much you can do with a personal computer'

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Day 5 of Openreach strikes: No use of tech company toilets. No water. Fresh dates outlined

'No access to buildings' for striking Repayment Project engineers, confirms company

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GPS jamming around Cyprus gives our air traffic controllers a headache, says Eurocontrol

One-fifth of all flights in a 3 hour period were affected

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I haven't bought new pants for years, why do I have to keep buying new PCs?

Friends and family tech support meets steam-powered computing

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Intel CPU interconnects can be exploited by malware to leak encryption keys and other info, academic study finds

Side-channel ring race 'hard to mitigate with existing defenses'

EFF urges Google to ground its FLoC: 'Pro-privacy' third-party cookie replacement not actually great for privacy

'That is not the world we want, nor the one users deserve'

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Oh SITA: Airline IT provider confirms passenger data leaked after major 'cyber-attack'

Data from multiple aviation giants hit

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While Reg readers know the difference between a true hacker and cyber-crook, for everyone else, hacking means illegal activity

Our vulture Iain argues against this week's motion

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Dutch government: Did we say 10 'high data protection risks' in Google Workspace block adoption? Make that 8

Untangling privacy implications of using Google's productivity suite not easy

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Biden administration labels China top tech threat, promises proportionate responses to cyberattacks

Tech visa reform pledged, alongside diplomacy to write new rules for tech

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Software

Linus Torvalds issues early Linux Kernel update to fix swapfile SNAFU

‘Subtle and very nasty bug’ meant 5.12 rc1 could trash entire filesystems

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Facebook uses one billion Instagram photos to build massive object-recognition AI that partly trained itself

Proof-of-concept SEER taught over eight days using 512 GPUs

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You only need pen and paper to fool this OpenAI computer vision code. Just write down what you want it to see

Trick future robot overlords by scribbling 'superuser' on your forehead

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The Document Foundation updates LibreOffice Community to 7.1.1

Ninth anniversary celebrated with bug fixes for enthusiasts and power users

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The sooner AI stops trying to mimic human intelligence, the better – as there isn't any

Still waiting for neuroscientists to work out why

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UK monopoly watchdog launches probe after iOS app makers slam Apple software store's draconian T&Cs

The walls are closing in on the iGiant

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Honda sends first consumer Level 3 autonomous car into showrooms, but only to 100 lucky Japanese leasers

Netflix and drive is finally here

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Chrome release cycle accelerated to four-weekly frenzy

Faster, Sysadmin! Install! Install!

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PayPal says developer productivity jumped 30% during the COVID-19 plague

Despite perils of 500PB data trove, 'microservices abuse' and need to rapidly bring Asian tech to the world

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Self-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server virty users see stealth inflation

Software remains pretty much the same... but at twice the price

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